Chapter 2

Luigi and Toadette were locked in a game of chess.
Toadette: Can we stop? We been playing this game for hours! I've already beaten you 9 times!
Luigi: FYI! It was not 9 times!
Toadette: (moving her king) Checkmate! Make that 10. You suck.
Luigi: What? You cheated!
Toadette: No. You just can't play. Now if you excuse me I have a book to return to.
Luigi: What book?
Toadette: It's a very good book called Polyphobia. You should read it.
Luigi: Are you making fun of me?
Toadette: How so?
Luigi: I'm claustrophobic.
Toadette: For real?
Luigi: You never knew?
Toadette: No.
Luigi: Oh. May I see the book?
She handed him the book.
Luigi: Is claustrophobia in here?
Toadette: Yep! Page 32 to 35.
Luigi read the pages on in fear.
Toadette: Interesting, eh?
Luigi: Yeah. I can relate to this stuff. Even the symptoms.
Toadette: You mean cold sweats, quickened heart-rate, blurred vision, flashbacks, naseau, cramps, and trouble breathing?
Luigi: Yeah.
Toadette: Then you have an extreme phobia.
Luigi: What?
Toadette: If you are exposed to your fear too much.
She paused. Luigi gave her back the book. She flipped through the pages.
Toadette: Ah. Here it is. Extreme Phobia Stages. With extreme phobia you go through a series of stages. Stage 1 is Panic Mode. The one you go through now. Stage 2 is Loss of Social Status, which basically means that you start to withdraw from people and possible help out of fear. Stage 3 is loss of mental status. The phobia becomes the only thing you can think about, which of course...
Luigi: Is bad?
Toadette: Exactly. The finale stage is Loss of Physical Status. This includes loss of sleep and appetite, depression,
disease, stroke, heartattacks, and...
Luigi: And what?
Toadette: Do you want to know?
Luigi: Yes.
Toadette: Do you really want to know?
Luigi: Yes yes I want to know!
Toadette: Death.
Luigi: Death?
Toadette: Yup. If the strokes and heartattacks don't kill ya, your mind surely will. Your mind and body will become so fed up with fear that it will simply refuse to live. It's like commiting suicide, without intentionally doing it.
Luigi: Wow. I guess I gotta becareful were I go.
Toadette: Don't worry. Not many people make it past stage 1. Anyways. I gots to go. See ya!
She dashed off. Mario came through the door.
Luigi: Hello.
Mario: Hi. Look. To make a long story short, I'm sorry for making fun of you.
Luigi: As much as it pains me to say this...I don't except your apology.
Mario: Great! I knew you'd...what? What did you just say?
Luigi: I said that I do not except your bogus, half-baked apology.
Mario: My apology is not half-baked it's fully baked!
Luigi: That's not even true! Why should except an apology from you? You actually had the nerve! To tease me for something that's your fault!
Mario: What are you talking about? My fault? How is this my fault? I didn't do nothin!
Luigi: Actually... You did do somthing. Doesn't the word "trunk"...mean anything to you?
Mario winced. He clearly remembered the incident.
Luigi: I'm waiting.
Mario: I've not the slightest clue what your talking about.
Luigi: Don't give me none of that! You know darn well what I'm talking about!
Mario: So what! I don't have to anwser to you!
Luigi: Just admit it. You are in the wrong right know. Just admit that you are to blame for this. Just admit that you're a horrible brother!
Mario: Over my dead body!
Luigi: Admit it!
Mario: No!
Luigi: Admit it!
Mario: Nooooo!
Luigi: ADMIT IT!
Mario: NOOOO!
Toadette rushed in the room.
Toadette: What in the world is going on?
Luigi: Your not involved.
Toadette: I am now! What is with all the arguing?
Luigi: Mario started it.
Mario: I did not!
Luigi: Yeah you did! 15 years ago!
Toadette: What does something that happened 15 years ago have to do with this?
Mario tried to inch away but Luigi caught him out the corner of his eye.
Luigi: Oh no you don't! The woman asked a question!
Mario: I don't have to answer to anybody!
He left the room.
Toadette: I'm caught in the middle aren't I?
Luigi: Basically.
Toadette: Since I'm involved, tell me what happened!
Luigi: Ask Mario.
Toadette: He ain't gonna tell me nothin!
Luigi: What makes you think I will?
Toadette: Mean.
She started to leave but Toad rushed through and ran into Toadette.
Toadette: Hey! What is the big idea!
Toad: I'm so sorry, but I need you in the kitchen pronto!
He pulled her away to the kitchen.
Luigi: That was wierd.
The doorbell rang. He answered it. Peach and Daisy was at the door with a thousand bags.
Luigi: Shopping I suppose?
Peach and Daisy: Hmm...prehaps.
Luigi: I take that as a yes. So what did you buy, a lifetime supply of clothes? No wait, a thousand lifetimes worth of clothes?
Daisy: You act as if we're shopping fanatics.
Luigi: Ya'll are.
Peach: Anyway, so where is Mario?
Luigi: Don't now don't give. I don't wanna see him right know.
Peach: What happened?
Daisy: Argument.
Peach: How would you know?
Daisy: Duh. They're brothers. That's what brothers do.
Luigi: She's right though.
Peach: Oh. Well I hope ya'll make up.
Daisy: They will. Only 1 out of every 50 arguments cause siblings to stay mad forever.
Peach: How do you know these things?
Daisy: I read em in a magazine.
Luigi: That must of been a pretty deep magazine.
Daisy: Yeah. I picked it up by mistake. It was pretty interesting.
Peach: Ok. So what's for lunch? I'm famished.
Daisy: Aren't you hungry too?
Peach look at her.
Daisy: Calm down it was a joke.
Luigi: Right.
Peach: So what is for lunch?
Luigi: I don't know. Ask Toadette. She's the cook.
Peach: TOADETTE!
Toadette walked out the kitchen. She was covered from head to toe (which really isn't that far) in beef stew.
Luigi: What the hell!
Daisy: I ain't even gonna say anything.
Peach: Well I will, what the heck happened!
Toadette: Trust me you don't want to know.
Peach: Yeah I do!
Toadette: The stew blew up.
Luigi: How could your stew blow up? You're such a fabulous cook.
Toadette: Well that's what happens when I take a break to play chess with you and ask Toad to take over.
Daisy: How did it happen?
Toadette: Well let's just say that Toad mistook gunpowder for pepper. Take my advice and never send him to no store.
Peach: How bad does the kitchen look?
Toadette: It depends. Take a look at me. What do you think?
Peach rushed to the kitchen. She screamed. Daisy, Luigi, and Toadette rushed in after her.
Luigi and Daisy: DAMN!
Peach: My kitchen!
Toadette: This is about to get ugly...